Kisser
2007
In which Marilyn Monroe goes up in smoke. Granular synthesis is a process whereby sound is broken up into small fragments or grains that can then be stretched or re-arranged into clouds of sound. Similarly video can be subject to a type of granular synthesis either by treating single frames as a grain and looping or repeating sections or by breaking the image itself into particles and re-assembling them. In Kisser it is the later visual approach which is used accompanied by granular sound synthesis so that as Marilyn goes up into smoke as she delivers a burning kiss to the screen so the sound is stretched and overlaid reaching a peak. Never fear though for unlike Humpty Dumpty all the pieces/garains/particles can be re-assembled and sound and image are put back together again.
Screened at: Memorial Art Gallery, Hastings (2009). A one minute version was screened as part of a touring One Minute Programme at: Hornsey Town Hall, The Hull International Short Film, The Directors Lounge, Berlin, Artprojix, London (2008).